The jewish question 1933-39

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Policy towards Jews in Germany 1933 - 39:

Question 1

By what stages, and why, did the Nazi regime increase its persecution of the Jews in the years 1933-39?

After the Nazi regime came into power the Nazi’s moved to persecute Jews. This ideology of Anti - Semitism was to spread across Germany and this was implemented in four main stages. In order to asses why and how the persecution of Jews was increasing I will be looking at the four different factors that contributed to the persecution between 1933 -39.

One of the main reasons for the increase in anti-Semitism was due to the Nazi policies that were introduced. Such policies included the law of that banned Jews from a jobs in the civil service on the 7th of April 1933 and further banned Jewish doctors and dentists. this is just one supporting evidence of the persecution that the Jews suffered due to Nazi policies. Hitler had also influenced the increase of anti Semitism as race was a dominant theme in his book Mein Kampf which influenced Nazi ideology.

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Traditionally Germany was also an anti-Semitic and therefore furthered the increase of the persecution of the Jews as the church of Germany was obviously anti Semitic and therefore increased the persecution of the Jews.

Anti - Semitic measures were introduced across Germany but they were not of the extreme measures that were to be implemented later. All these measures that were introduced were introduced in order to discriminate and disgrace Jews as a race. Such measures included the Boycott in April 1933, and the pressure on Germans to exclude Jews from clubs and professional links these measures separated Jews ...

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